Back in July
2020, I prepared and published my first article
on securing schools and other educational institutions from criminal and
terrorist threats. After publication, the article was edited several times, the
last edits I made in January 2022.
The article
was divided into two parts:
In the first
part, I analyzed the current situation of child safety in educational
institutions by the example of my country, as well as in the world, in
parallel, I considered positive examples from foreign experience in this area. In
addition, I gave my assessment of the level of risks and the degree of probable
threats in the near future, and some forecasts about the prospects for the
development of the situation;
In the
second, I considered the possibilities of counteracting such threats, reducing
the number of human casualties and the level of material damage. In addition, I
proposed my own, hypothetical model of the system of ensuring the security of
educational institutions.
While still
working on the article, I noticed the difficulties in collecting materials for
research, which have to be collected from various sources, and they often
contain incomplete or unreliable (contradictory) information, there was no
information on statistics at all, apparently, no one was simply not engaged in
it. All this prompted me to create my own statistical research, which I did,
spending almost a year on it, but it was worth it. The result of this work was
the Handbook
of Crimes and Terrorist Acts in Schools and Other Educational Institutions,
which includes information on crimes and terrorist acts committed in
educational institutions around the world, for the period from 2000 to 2023
inclusive. The publication contains not only statistical but also analytical
material. The handbook is fully accessible to all who wish to use its materials
without any restrictions. I continue to
collect and systematize data for the handbook, and as they accumulate I will
try to post new, corrected and supplemented versions of the handbook.
When I was
working on the materials for the handbook, I realized that the nature of the
threat and its scale is much greater than I had originally assumed, I seriously
underestimated the degree of danger, both at the moment and in the near future.
The hypothetical model of the system of ensuring the security of educational
institutions that I proposed in the first article could not effectively cope
with it.
Improvement
of the system I proposed initially will not give anything, it requires a
completely different approach, the creation of a model (so far only
hypothetical) built on completely different principles and with completely
different tasks.
The technical
task that I have set for myself, if briefly, is the following: to create an
effective model to ensure the safety of schools and other educational
institutions, as well as places with a mass stay of children, from threats
(existing and prospective), criminal and terrorist nature. At the same time,
educational institutions should not change their main function, should not turn
into prisons, bunkers or military bases.
Is this
possible? I believe that it is, so I am starting to work on it. I will be glad
to receive any help in working on the project, as well as communication with
like-minded people, colleagues and everyone who is interested in this topic,
who wants to make children's lives safer.
You can contact me in any
convenient way.
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